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Yes, Ireland has a legal definition for bread. And the nation's Supreme Court said Subway's bread has too much sugar to satisfy it.

Hundreds of musicians turned out to play an orchestral number across from Britain's parliament in a protest of the pandemic-related drop in government financial aid to freelancers like themselves.

Slate contributor Seth Stevenson examines the latest series of ads from the insurance company Geico. The commercials range from parodies to straightforward -- and, some say, bland -- pitches for their services.

The Academic Film Archive is working with the Library of Congress to make a worldwide database of all the old educational movies it can find. And in St. Louis, in an effort to preserve these classic 16-mm movies, a group is holding monthly screenings of films like The Living Soil, which was produced by Shell Oil Company in the 1960s to extol the virtues of pesticides. Matt Sepic of member station KWMU reports.

Kenyan police battle crowds of protesters, as opponents of President Mwai Kibaki take to the streets to decry the Kikuyu leader's allegedly fraudulent re-election.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the Fed is committed to keeping the U.S. economy out of a recession. He did not indicate a specific percentage-point cut to interest rates to prevent housing and credit problems from dragging down the economy.

The Justice Department has donated thousands of documents to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The more than 50,000 pages chronicle trials of Nazis found living in the United States over the past three decades.

The White House is considering the designation of a new marine reserve in the Northern Mariana Islands, but it may not get the same amount of protection as an area created two years ago near Hawaii. The same could be true for other sites in the Pacific that are also under consideration.

Mexico has been hit the hardest by swine flu. More than 100 people have died there of suspected cases, and hundreds more have been sickened by the virus.

Iraqi leaders celebrated Thursday as the new security agreement with the U.S. went into effect. Now, American forces are operating under Iraqi authority. Separately, three Iraqi policemen were killed in the city of Mosul, underlining the security challenges that remain. In Baghdad's Green Zone, the U.S. formally handed over control to Iraqi forces.